Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC
Alleged N1.3bn Fraud: Supreme Court Orders Sule Lamido, Sons to Resume Trial
The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Friday, January 16, 2026, ordered a former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, his two sons, Mustapha and Aminu and others, to enter their defences at the Federal High Court, Abuja over alleged N1.35billion fraud. A five-member panel of the apex court issued the directive in two unanimous judgments delivered on Friday in the two appeals filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The EFCC’s appeals were against the July 25, 2023 judgments by the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which upheld the no-case submission made by Lamido and others and struck ou…
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